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Dont import wives from India,Pak: Scholar

London: A Glasgow-based Islamic scholar has told young British Muslim grooms with origins in the Indian sub-continent to marry women born in Scotland rather than import wives from India and Pakistan. Parents of Asian children born and brought up in Britain prefer to import wives from India and Pakistan on the assumption that they are better cultured and make better wives. The result is that there are many young Asian women raised in the UK who have been left on the shelf,he said.